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Reconstruction

Reconstruction. Chapter 12. Reconstruction. Reconstruction was the period during which the US began to rebuild after the Civil War, lasting from 1865-1877. Reconstruction Plans. Abraham Lincoln. Andrew Johnson. Radical Republicans. Charles Sumner. Thaddeus Stevens.

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Reconstruction

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  1. Reconstruction Chapter 12

  2. Reconstruction • Reconstruction was the period during which the US began to rebuild after the Civil War, lasting from 1865-1877.

  3. Reconstruction Plans

  4. Abraham Lincoln

  5. Andrew Johnson

  6. Radical Republicans Charles Sumner Thaddeus Stevens

  7. Reconstruction Laws

  8. Political Cartoon AssignmentDue Monday, January 25 • You will choose one of your vocab terms and create a political cartoon for it. • A political cartoon much include the following: • Main Idea: What is your topic? 25 pts • View point: Who is your audience? (North or South?) What are you trying to say about it? 25 pts • Symbols: Use pictures/symbols to get your point across. 25 pts • Title: Sometimes a title is all that is needed to focus your audience. 25 pts. • Dialogue: This is optional but it can help focus the attention.

  9. Bell Work 01/25/10 • How were Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan compare to Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan? • Why did the Radical Republicans not like either president’s Reconstruction Plans? • Turn in your Political Cartoon Homework!

  10. Southern States Readmitted • By 1870, all Southern states had reentered the Union • This is partially due to scalawags (Southern Republicans) and carpetbaggers (Northerners who moved to the South for personal gain) • Southerners very bitter about these two types of people.

  11. Southern View of Carpetbaggers

  12. Effects of Reconstruction

  13. Misconceptions of A-As • Slaves did not move North immediately. • Most stayed close to the plantations they lived on.

  14. African-American Progress • Freedman’s Bureau • Was a savior to newly freed slaves, but was not able to last • Education • Education was denied slaves, so all ages sought to obtain it • Churches • Became the political and social centers which remain today. Think MLK, Jr. • Politics • At first allowed to participate, but eventually denied that right at the end of Reconstruction

  15. Hiram Revels

  16. Limits on A-As • Social • Limitations not just b/w races but also education and birth status. • Political • Black Codes - Restricted rights of A-A’s right after war. Ended with 14th Amendment • Jim Crow Laws - Created after Reconstruction to segregate races. Led to laws that prevented A-As from voting. • Economic • Sharecropping and tenant farming – similar to the feudal system of Europe. A-As and poor whites never able to free themselves economically from richer whites.

  17. White Bitterness • Ku Klux Klan • Used violence to intimidate blacks and northern whites • Carpetbaggers • seen as an invasion by the north • Scalawags • Seen as traitors to the south.

  18. Corruption Hits Grant’s Presidency • Grant was considered honest, but he tended to appoint dishonest people. • Beginning in 1872, a series of scandals hit Grant’s administration… • Crédit Mobilier: Leading Republicans were skimming money from railroad construction jobs, including the vice president. • Whiskey Ring: Tax collectors were accepting money not to collect excise taxes on whiskey. Indicted was Grant’s personal secretary. • Sec. of War took bribes to continue allowing trading in Indian Territory; Sec. of Navy took bribes from shipbuilding companies; Sec. of Interior sold gov. land to speculators.

  19. President Ulysses S. Grant

  20. Democrats Redeem the South • Redemption = Democrats return to power in the South.

  21. Election of 1876 • Samuel J. Tilden (D) vs. Rutherford B. Hayes (R) • The election was too close to call, so the House of Reps. was called on to decide the election.

  22. Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President

  23. Compromise of 1877 • In the Compromise of 1877, Southern Democrats in Congress chose to elect Hayes in exchange for ending Reconstruction. • This brought back home rule in the South, which was the right for each state in the South to rule itself. • No Republican governments remained in the South after this point. • They passed laws that restricted the rights of African Americans, wiped out social programs, slashed taxes, and dismantled public schools.

  24. Legacy of Reconstruction • Little progress against discrimination. • Thought AA’s could protect themselves through political process. • Not complete failure… 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments laid foundation for civil rights actions in 1950’s and 60’s.

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